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- Birth nameBelva Offenberg
- Belva Plain was born on October 9, 1915 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Evergreen (1985) and The Write Stuff (1988). She was married to Irving Plain. She died on October 12, 2010 in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA.
- SpouseIrving Plain(1941 - 1982) (his death, 3 children)
- Did not begin her writing career until she was in her 60s.
- Romance novelist. Her first novel, the best seller "Evergreen", was published when she was 62.
- She graduated from Barnard College in 1939 with a history degree. The following year, she sold her first story to Cosmopolitan magazine.
- She wrote her books longhand in spiral notebooks; she rarely used a typewriter.
- I got sick of reading the same old story, told by Jewish writers, of the same old stereotypes -- the possessive mothers, the worn-out fathers, all the rest of the neurotic rebellious unhappy self-hating tribe. I wanted to write a different novel about Jews -- and a truer one.
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